Bronchitis: Inhaled steroids are likely to land you in hospital - Many elderly people with bronchitis or emphysema, known collectively as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), are likely to end up in hospital...

Beta-carotene is good for veins - Atherosclerosis where fats narrow the main arteries, sometimes leading to a heart attack can be helped by taking beta-carotene, new research has disco...

Cholesterol: The Mediterranean diet reduces the risk - Forget statins – the traditional Mediterranean diet can reduce the levels of LDL cholesterol dramatically, even among people who are at high risk of h...

Vitamin c beats heart disease - Vitamin C can reverse heart disease and is more effective against HIV than the drug AZT, delegates at a London conference on nutrition were told. The...

Beta carotene: studies must take a wider view - Your leader in the September newsletter "Of Strokes and Smokers" about the beta carotene studies (WDDTY vol 7 no 6) bought up some important issues re...

Beta carotene supplements may cause cancer - Very high doses of beta carotene supplements may be cancer causing, as two earlier, and controversial studies had concluded. Diets that are rich in fo...

Mediterranean Diet: It can increase your chances of living longer - Eating a ‘true’ Mediterranean diet can increase your chances of living longer. You are 22 per cent less likely to die from any disease, and it can ev...

Beta-carotene: now the good news - Despite recent adverse publicity, beta-carotene does provide an effective safeguard against lung cancer, new research has found. ...